SHIPWRECK ON MIDDLETON REEF: The Story of a Tasman Survivor

SHIPWRECK ON MIDDLETON REEF: The Story of a Tasman Survivor
SHIPWRECK ON MIDDLETON REEF: The Story of a Tasman Survivor
SHIPWRECK ON MIDDLETON REEF: The Story of a Tasman Survivor
SHIPWRECK ON MIDDLETON REEF: The Story of a Tasman Survivor
SHIPWRECK ON MIDDLETON REEF: The Story of a Tasman Survivor
SHIPWRECK ON MIDDLETON REEF: The Story of a Tasman Survivor
SHIPWRECK ON MIDDLETON REEF: The Story of a Tasman Survivor
SHIPWRECK ON MIDDLETON REEF: The Story of a Tasman Survivor
SHIPWRECK ON MIDDLETON REEF: The Story of a Tasman Survivor
SHIPWRECK ON MIDDLETON REEF: The Story of a Tasman Survivor
SHIPWRECK ON MIDDLETON REEF: The Story of a Tasman Survivor
SHIPWRECK ON MIDDLETON REEF: The Story of a Tasman Survivor
SHIPWRECK ON MIDDLETON REEF: The Story of a Tasman Survivor
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Title: SHIPWRECK ON MIDDLETON REEF: The Story of a Tasman Survivor
Author(s): BELCHER, Bill
ISBN: 0002169525
Category: Boats / Marine / Shipping
New / Used: Used
Book Type: Small Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Published: 1979
Published By: Collins
Edition: 1st edition
Pages: 190
Size (mm): 145 w x 220 h x 20 d

Condition

Immaculate with only light wear/spine fading on dust jacket, faint spotting on end papers and page edges. pages otherwise clean, no stamps or inscriptions.

About

The story of how Bill, winner of the 1974 Trans-tasman single handed race, New Plymouth to Mooloolaba, Queensland, had started in the 1978 race but had gone missing. The media ran the story of the race's organisers reluctance to institute a search. The eventual air search located Bill's Josephine II on the notorious Middleton Reef, but HMAS Swan could find no trace of Bill and the life raft.

The story culminated when, after 28 days of drifting in the raft, Bill was picked up by a Nauru-bound ship. The book alternates between Bill's story, and that of his wife Aileen, waiting with anxiety and frustration for news of her husband.

Illustrated throughout with monochrome images, illustrations and maps. Maps on end papers.

Remarks

Scarce

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